Avatar Assignment

I fought and fought with this assignment.  Did you know the video doesn't match up with the written instructions?  Yeaaaaah.  There's a couple of things he did in the video that didn't match up to the written bits.  Anywho....this is my first draft version.  I have some work to do on the cheeks, especially the camera left side.  That first round of dodging/burning where you can't see what you're doing?  Yup...that's what happened.  Too much burning.  And remember that old adage from art class that yellow + blue = green?  Yup.  So I have spots where you can see green hair.  I tried to get them all but I think I missed a few.  This was definitely NOT my favorite assignment....not.at.all.

Edit - I forgot to add the original picture.  I obviously cropped her.  The hair over the shoulders on the right gave me too much issue and the necklace was a pain to try to paint over each little bead.  It was just taking entirely too long so I cropped her.  Also, if you look at her eyes in this original picture, you can see there is a lot of glare from the photography lighting being used.  When I blew up her eyes to work on them, there wasn't very many highlights at all to use, which I think made her eyes look wonky in the draft version above.